Friday, December 24, 2010

christmas cookies

On the Wednesday before Christmas we headed down to my parents house and made Christmas cookies.  It brought back so many memories watching Caleigh and Andrew roll (and eat) the dough, use cookie cutters, and then ice and decorate the cookies with my mom.  It was such a sweet time [pun intended :) ].  
 Andrew kicked off the afternoon with some dancing for us...


This was really the first time Andrew was exposed to cooking - he helps me make the coffee (ie use the coffee grinder and push the buttons on the coffee machine) from time to time but he doesn't get to do much else.  He was so hilarious.  I was laughing the whole time because he was so funny.  He was making the biggest mess you could ever imagine all while eating more that you could believe.  It was adorable and so funny.

He did so well and loved it!
This is what he did the whole time - eat, eat, eat.  He would have one cookie in each hand and take a bite out of each one, then put them down, pick up 2 new ones, and take a bite out of each of those.
Caleigh, of course, did such a great job.  She loves to help cook.  She was very serious though - the smile below is one of very few I was able to get on the camera.  Every time I tried to take a picture of her she would say, "Mama, I'm busy right now."  
Andrew eating, of course...

Such a cute picture - love that Andrew has one cookie in each hand and that Caleigh, so sweetly, has her arm around Gigi.
And here is a fabulous video that seriously sums up the entire afternoon.  So funny...

What a great time!  Thanks to PopPop, Gigi, and KK!